October 28, 2008

Erica and SWMBO were really into the Halloween spirit when we met at Eric's. Erica had the stylin' belt and SWMBO had lovely fingernail art See:

Of course she had spiders on the other finger which caused a bit of confusion when she had an actual spider appear on her leg...

It was all about the nails this weekend. Oddy had little candy corns painted on her toenails. I remembered this when I saw a piece of candy corn laying on the floor at the airport and suddenly realized I never took a picture of her tootsies (don't think I had my camera with me when she mentioned it).

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I was busy but I should have told you...never speed in a rental car. Do not even come close to speeding in a rental. LEOs can easily recognize rentals. They know that most folks in a rental are from out of town so they will not come back for court but pay the fine. A ticket written does much to keep the SGT off a bluesuit's back, plus that ticket is free money to that town. Towns like free money. You can get out of that ticket by showing up for court with some reading material and your toothpaste and tell 'em that you'll sit it out, but it's much cheaper to pay. That is what those towns depend on.

Candy corn. Heh. There was a greeting card that had a colorful drawing of a craggy old witch on the front -- picking her disgusting yellowed-orangeish bumpy old toes with super long toenails, etc.

Inside it read: "Where candy corn comes from." The toes looked like candy corn, kinda, see? Aw hell, I can't explain a CARD in a comment. Anyway, I think MOD gave that to me for a Halloween one year. As you can see, it made quite an impression. I will have nothing to do with candy corn.

October 21, 2008

This was reenactment day. They had Allies and Axis groups complete with uniforms and all the stuff that goes with military camping. It was very well done.

I wish we could have gone to both days because they had different battles each day. But I was glad to have seen at least one of them. We were very impressed with the amount of coordination between the groups to pull it off. It's not easy! It's not just men, but guns, tanks, half tracks, planes... all in all it was a great show!

I may post more pics later, but I had enough trouble getting these fixed up and loaded. I hope they are good enough to give you an idea of the place. It's really quite fascinating.

Once you've seen the pics, you might want to check them out online. They do have a "Wings of Freedom" tour that might stop near you.

October 15, 2008

Headed to Chicago

It's a 4 day weekend. Going to spend time with the kidlets and hopefully have some fun. No computer though - just my Blackberry. At the rate I've been browsing lately - I may get to more blogs via my BB than I do with my regular computer.

*****Because, the poor guy just needs one more chance to prove he's not really so bad. There have only been 12 other incidents and by golly they aren't gonna pay him for these 4 games - that'll show him!

And let's close with a little snippet instead of a headline because the wording...oh my yes... the wording is hilarious:

Kids from newborns to teenagers should take twice as much Vitamin D as previously recommended because it may help prevent serious disease, a leading medical group said yesterday.

Note the word "may" in the middle of that sentence. I also get a kick out of "leading medical group". Now note my prediction: There will be a complete about face on this call for more Vitamin D in the next 5 years.

Of course the next bit is even funnier:

The new recommendation came from the American Academy of Pediatrics. A pediatrician is a doctor who takes care of kids.

I think this is aimed at the very people AWTM has been meeting over at the local school. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. And I am also uncharitable enough to laugh a them.

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Ah yes, humor. Some days it's just sitting there staring at you from the headlines.

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Re: "Pacman suspended at least 4 games for violating conduct policy"...I can't believe the ghosts complained. After all, they were chasing him most of the time, not the other way around. Anyhow, does this mean that I can get my quarters back? Because I'd really be fine with playing some Ms Pacman, Galaga or even Centipede.

October 01, 2008

You may recall - with fondness, it is hoped - this semi-Quixotic
campaign from last year. At that time, I had become fed up with early
Christmas advertising, and so I railed against it in this space. I was
pleasantly surprised by how many folks felt the same as I did, as well
as tremendously gratified when most of them tried to do something to
help the cause.

Well, here we go again.

Go read the rest! Join us in the fight to

Keep Thanksgiving First!

It's my favorite holiday and I like celebrating it without having it trampled by Christmas. Nothing is special when it's overhyped.

So, help the cause, join us in keeping Thanksgiving free of Christmas and making Christmas special again!